Plate-lifter.



No. 805,283. I PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

O. GOODWIN.

PLATE LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17. 1905.

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OSCAR GOODWIN, OF BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO J. HOWARD WIGHT, OF BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PLATE-LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OsoAR GooDwIN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Berlin, in the county of Ooos and State of New Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Plate-Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to plate-lifters, so called, which consist of contrivances designed for lifting hot artiolessuch as plates, pans, 860., used in cooking-and the improvements are applied to that type of platelifters in which a wooden handle is employed which projects to one side of the wire devices which are manipulated to engage and hold the plate.

The invention consists of improvements which are hereinafter described in detail and as closed and the handle removed. Fig. 3 is' an end view.

The same letters of reference designate the same parts or features wherever they occur. In the drawings, a designates the handle,

. which is preferably composed of wood and which is extended so that the upper ends of arms I) b, composed of wire, may be connected thereto and supported therefrom. One of the arms is rigidly connected to the handle and has an eye or loop 0 formed therein, in which eye the upper end of the other arm is looped or hung. The jaws (Z 6 are formed out of the wires comprising the arms and are by preference an integral part thereof. When the jaws are closed, each will have the portion of the wire adjacent to the vertically-arranged arms extend inward toward the middle in a horizontal direction, as at f, and thence it extends outward in an inclined direction, as represented at g, and then straight inward at a right angle to the part f, where a short bend is made, as at it, and it is returned outward again to the point g, thus first forming a triangular supporting-bend c' and a return fingerbend 7'. At the point g the wire is bent so as to extend parallel with the handle and form the outside of the center of the jaw, and at the proper point another return finger-bend and triangular bend c', with a straight portion f connecting the triangular bend with the arm. One jaw will in form be a counterpart of the other, excepting that the return fingerbends of one jaw when the jaws are closed will be parallel with the return finger-bends of the other jaw, but extend outside of the same into the triangular bends on the opposite side, all as is clearly illustrated in the drawings. By bending the wires outward at the inward termination of the straight portions f in forming the triangular bend t' of the jaws and then making the long return-bend which forms the finger j and repeating these bends on each side of the jaw, connecting the said bends by a straight stretch of wire form ing the outer margin of the central portion of the jaws, I am enabled to and do construct jaws which when closed have a broad support for any article resting thereon. This is important in most instances, since the jaws extend a very considerable distance under the article supported and carried, so that there is little or no liability of it slipping off. By means of the broad base of the jaws it will be seen that small plates or things can also be caught up with readiness and carried with safety.

I claim A plate lifter and carrier comprising a handle of the character described, two pairs of arms composed of wire depending from the handle, a pair of jaws formed from the central portions of said wires and each jaw constructed'on each side with a straight portion, a triangular bend, an inward return-bend forming a long finger, and a stretch of wire forming the outer margin of the central part of the jaws, each jaw being a counterpart of the other, excepting when closed the finger-bends of one jaw will extend parallel with and outside of the finger-bend of the other jaw, and into the triangular bend of the opposite jaw.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OSCAR GOODWIN.

Witnesses:

JAMES L. BEATTIE, OSCAR O. LOFO. 

